Greetings! This is the first assignment from the About.com HTML 101 course. I'm not supposed to know much about formatting text at this point, so this is going to be a run-on paragraph with no highlighting of any kind. I'm also not supposed to know how to add colour, change the font, or use a background image at this point. Please bear with me; I'm sure these will be added as the course progresses. And since I'm not supposed to know how to put in hyperlinks, you'll have to excuse me for not allowing you any way to contact me or to navigate through my site from this particular page. Please use your browser's back button. You'll find navigation links and contact information on my home page. Thank you for your understanding. At this point, the only comments I have about the course are that it's rather awkward to be reading part of the lesson in an email & another part online. I'm really not sure why it was designed this way. I also have a question for anyone who might have an interest in the pickier details of using HTML: Why would the teacher say that it is "wrong" that About.com converts her body tag into uppercase letters? My understanding was that in HTML the tags are not case sensitive. I had also picked up somewhere that it was a good idea to type elements (things like HTML, BODY and P) in uppercase, while attributes (things like color="#xxxxxx" or face="yourfonthere") all in lowercase. I've been trying this with my WebTechU homework & it seems to me this would be a good way to make code easier to read & edit. Any opinions or "official" stances on the upper/lowercase question? Feel free to email me at greenwood AT draknet.com (take out the spaces and use the at symbol to make a useable email address.) Thank you again for reading through this horrible run-on paragraph! Please hit "back" now to return to the rest of the Work In Progress web site. Brightest blessings, Willow March 19, 2002